PDHO News Paradigm Solutions Corporation Awarded Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Contract to Implement a Bureau-wide Crisis/Incident Management System
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paradigm Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: PDHO), announced that Paradigm Solutions
Corporation (Paradigm), its wholly-owned subsidiary, has been awarded a
contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to implement a
Bureau-wide crisis/incident management system. As part of the contract,
which was awarded on September 22, 2006, BOP will purchase and utilize
Paradigm’s web-based Continuity of Operations
(COOP) program development and implementation software tool, OpsPlannerTM.
This solution will enhance BOP’s ability to
automate and streamline the contingency plan activation and
crisis/incident management process. OpsPlanner includes full auditing
capability, which facilitates post-event review and analysis.
Commenting on the award, Peter B. LaMontagne, Paradigm Holdings, Inc.
President and Chief Operating Officer, stated, “We
are very pleased to have been awarded the opportunity to support BOP in
enhancing COOP and Crisis management and response. We recognize and
respect the importance of this work within BOP’s
mission for the Department of Justice.”
A component of the Department of Justice, BOP’s
mission is to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled
environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe,
humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and that provide work
and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming
law-abiding citizens. Today, the Bureau consists of more than 113
institutions, 6 regional offices, a Central Office (headquarters), 2
staff training centers, and 28 community corrections offices. They are
responsible for the custody and care of approximately 185,000 Federal
offenders.
About Paradigm Holdings, Inc.
Paradigm Holdings, Inc., (www.paradigmsolutions.com)
parent company of Paradigm Solutions Corporation and Paradigm Solutions
International, is a comprehensive information technology and business
solutions provider for government and commercial enterprises. Paradigm
Solutions Corporation specializes in Enterprise Risk Management, Systems
Engineering, Infrastructure Support, and Program Management for
government customers. Paradigm Solutions International markets OpsPlannerTM
disaster recovery and emergency management software and information
technology security consulting to commercial enterprises. Headquartered
in Rockville, Maryland, the company currently employs nearly 300 people
across 12 states.
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continue to implement its government technology solutions, its
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impacts, its dependence on certain key employees and its ability to
timely and effectively integrate the businesses it may acquire. For
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